09 April 2020
Commenting on the dangers of non-COVID conditions or illnesses being unmanaged or untreated during the COVID-19 pandemic, and urging patients who are seriously ill to seek medical care, Professor Martin Marshall, Chair of the Royal College of GPs, has said:
09 April 2020
Professor Martin Marshall, Chair of the Royal College of GPs, said: "Patients rely on medication at all stages of their lives, but when they are at or nearing the end of their lives, the medication patients receive is vital to ensure they remain comfortable at what is often a very distressing time.
07 April 2020
Commenting on updated advice on caring for vulnerable patients published by NHS England, Professor Martin Marshall, Chair of the Royal College of GPs, said: "Thinking and evidence around COVID-19 is evolving at pace and guidance for both healthcare professionals and patients needs to be kept up to date accordingly. This is a challenge both for those developing the guidance and those expected to follow it.
06 April 2020
Professor Martin Marshall, Chair of the Royal College of GPs, said: "GPs are committed to delivering the best possible care to our most vulnerable patients, many of whom live in care homes, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
02 April 2020
Responding to new guidance on personal protective equipment (PPE) for frontline clinicians, Professor Martin Marshall, Chair of the Royal College of GPs, said: "It is crucial that healthcare professionals on the frontline of tackling the COVID-19 pandemic are confident that they are able to work as safely as possible.
02 April 2020
The Royal College of GPs has been working with University of Oxford regarding developing guidelines for general practitioners during the COVID-19 outbreak. The Roth score was initially thought to be a useful approach to assessing patients remotely. However upon further analysis, it is not considered to have the necessarily reliability by itself.
01 April 2020
The importance of having a personalised care plan in place, especially for older people, people who are frail or have other serious conditions has never been more important than it is now during the Covid 19 Pandemic.
30 March 2020
Organisations representing the community health and social care workforce across Scotland have today written jointly to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport to call for urgent action to be taken to protect those caring for the most sick and vulnerable within communities across Scotland during the coronavirus pandemic.
28 March 2020
The RCGP has responded to the Government's launch of coronavirus tests for frontline NHS staff.
27 March 2020
Healthcare workers from domiciliary care to intensive care should be given the appropriate quantity and level of personal protection equipment (PPE) and rapid access to testing in readiness for Northern Ireland's Covid-19 surge.